Eighty-four years ago today, Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. While the pop-art icon passed away in 1987, his legacy is still going strong. We’re toasting to Warhol’s memory with highlights from The Andy Warhol Museum‘s official chronology, as well as Warhol’s own writings. As the artist himself once wrote in The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, “Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.” We couldn’t agree more.

2. Warhol contracted Sydenham’s chorea as a young boy, and was confined to his home for more than two months. The illness is characterized by rapid, uncontrollable movements brought on by rheumatic fever, and is sometimes referred to as “St. Vitus’s dance.”

3. Warhol’s mother encouraged her nine-year-old to explore his interest in art and popular culture while he was sick, so Warhol began to collect photos of movie stars.

4. He’d also take his own pictures and develop them in his parents’ basement, which he used as a darkroom.

24. Warhol enjoyed eating alone, and wanted to open a chain of restaurants called “ANDY-MATS — ‘The Restaurant for the Lonely Person.’”

25. Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol met in Pasadena in 1963, when Warhol was exhibiting his paintings of Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley. The Andy Warhol Museum‘s current exhibit Twisted Pair: Marcel Duchamp/Andy Warhol, investigates the two artists’ relationship.

26. While Warhol was in LA, Dennis Hopper threw him a “movie star party.”

27. Warhol designed the costumes for the 1963 Broadway production of James Thurber’s The Beast in Me, but wasn’t credited because he wasn’t a union member.

28. The New York City Police Department confiscated Andy Warhol films Jack Smith filming Normal Love (1963). The film was later lost.

29. Warhol rented an abandoned firehouse as a painting studio before moving to the original Factory in 1964 on 231 East 47th Street.

30. Warhol’s mural for the 1964 World’s Fair in New York, Thirteen Most Wanted Men, had to be painted over after officials objected to it. Warhol covered it in silver paint.

31. The first film Warhol made with live sound was called Harlot (1964).

32. Warhol received the Independent Film Award from Jonas Mekas’ avant-garde film periodical, Film Culture.

33. In 1965, Warhol announced that he was retiring from art and planning to devote himself to film.

34. Warhol was the first artist to publicly exhibit video art.

35. In a 1966 issue of Village Voice, Warhol took out the following ad: “I’ll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes small, tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N’ ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!! love and kisses ANDY WARHOL, EL 5-9941.”

36. Warhol designed the cover of the Velvet Underground and Nico’s 1967 self-titled debut album, which featured a banana with vinyl skin that peeled off.

37. Warhol also designed the poster for the 5th New York Film Festival.

38. The FBI reported on Warhol’s activities while he was on location in Arizona for his film, Lonesome Cowboys, in 1967.

39. While Warhol was on a college lecture tour, he enlisted his friend Allen Midgette to impersonate him during several appearances.

40. Warhol created a TV ad for the “Underground Sundae” for Schrafft’s restaurant chain in 1968.

41. He hated eating leftovers.

42. Warhol was a regular volunteer at homeless shelters in New York City.

43. Valerie Solanas, an author who had appeared in one of Warhol’s films, shot art critic Mario Amaya and Andy Warhol at the Factory in 1968.

44. Warhol was reportedly dead on arrival to the hospital, but was revived after five hours of surgery.

49. Cecil was actually called Ador Tipp Topp, and was a blue-ribbon winner at Westminster. After the Great Dane died, he was stuffed by a taxidermist at Yale, and eventually sold to a drama student for $10.

50. Warhol bought “Cecil” for $300 in the late ’60s, believing he had once belonged to Cecil B. deMille.

51. Cecil stood guard at the Factory’s door from 1969 to 1987.

52. In conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art‘s Art and Technology Program, Warhol created Rain Machine, an installation with a water shower and 3D lenticular prints of flowers.

53. Warhol acquired his first portable video camera in 1970.

54. In a collaboration with Craig Braun, Warhol designed the cover of the 1971 Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers.

55. The album cover was nominated for a Grammy Award.

56. Warhol would compulsively record his conversations, and referred to his tape recorder as his “wife.”

57. His play Pork was based on his tape recordings, and was performed in London and New York.

58. Filmmaker Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol acquired a 20-acre compound in Montauk, Long Island, where they would entertain friends.

59. The IRS audited Warhol every year from 1972 until his death in 1987.

60. In the early ’70s, Warhol removed the films he had directed from circulation.

61. Warhol appeared in the 1973 film The Driver’s Seat with Elizabeth Taylor.

62. Warhol produced the 1975 musical Man on the Moon; John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas wrote the book, music, and lyrics.

63. An exhibition of Warhol’s folk art collection, Andy Warhol’s “Folk and Funk,” was held at the Museum of American Folk Art (now the American Folk Art Museum) in 1977.

64. From the ’50s through the ’70s, Andy always kept a standard-size cardboard box beside his desk that he would fill with interesting ephemera. Each box would be taped and dated when it was full. At the time of his death, Andy had assembled over 600 of these “time capsules.”

65. Salvador Dali once gave Warhol a full bag of used palettes, which Warhol put in one of his time capsules.